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Yelpers, I am SOO DISAPPOINTED in some of you. How does this restaurant have a 4 star rating when it is SOO BAD. We stopped in this morning looking to try it out. We were wondering whether it holds up to Good-Ha, which used to occupy the same space. Well, we FAFO - IT DOESN'T!
We went simple. I ordered the Longsilog and my wife ordered the Tapsilog. When we received our food we didn't receive any condiments - salt, pepper, vinegar or soy sauce. I had to ask the cashier for them and I was given a container of vinegar, 1 packet of soy sauce and 3 salt packets. They didn't have any pepper. The vinegar was very basic. It lacked the traditional ingredients like onions, garlic or chilis.
Even with the limited condiment options, we decided to dive in. However, the food was cold. I struggled to mix my fried eggs with the rice. The rice was chunked up and hard to break up to mix in the yolk - not that there was much of it to mix in. I added some salt and a touch of soy and took a taste. Immediately, I noticed that the rice was way undercooked. Each grain was still hard and my palette wrestled with this textural problem.
SOO NOT a good start to my meal. Poorly cooked rice - How? As the saying goes...You Got Just One Job! But wait...It gets worse. My wife started to eat her tapa and stopped after the first bite. She insisted that there was something wrong with it and asked me to try it. I did and as soon as it hit my tongue my tastebuds recoiled in offense to whatever this imposter meat was. I have never tasted beef this repulsive. Did I already mention that everything was cold? Yeah, the tapa was cold too. Dry and disgusting with an aftertaste that not even Mama Mary could save you from. I took her plate to the counter and told them it was not good and asked to exchange. They allowed us to exchange, but the scowl on the servers face suggested her displeasure with my request.
My wife substituted the tapa for tuyo, which she said was fine - they didn't make it.
As we were there for about 30 minutes, the number of people that came and went along with all of the phone orders that were being picked up caused me great confusion. How could so many people, pinoys, think that this place is good. This is the worst filipino restaurant I have eaten at since Kalye Hits in Universal City (since closed). All I can assume is that it's due to hunger or convenience. I know that when folks are hungry, they will eat almost anything.
I am not the first to say these things, maybe just the latest. After my $55 bill, I would like a public apology for this fraudulent impersonation of filipino cuisine. Listen, save yourself and avoid this place. There are so many other places that are not too far away and are much better than misnomer, SOO GOOD aka SOO BAD.